Arduino Uno

[Meenakshi Sundaram]

Hi guys,
I came across the latest release - arduino uno. I have a few queries on that. They quote the following on their webpage:

"The Uno differs from all preceding boards in that it does not use the FTDI USB-to-serial driver chip. Instead, it features the Atmega8U2 programmed as a USB-to-serial converter. "

Now why is this better? I am not able to understand this.

M. Meenakshi Sundaram

[Meenakshi Sundaram]

Hi all,
Is it the absence of a separate USB-SERIAL driver?
M. Meenakshi Sundaram

[Anirudh]

One more question. Shields of the duemilanove board will be compatible with UNO?

Waiting for Ram to clear our doubts

[Meenakshi Sundaram]

Anirudh
It has the same pin configuration and micro-controller, so I guess it should work :).

[Ram_Tenet]

hi all,

sorry was busy to get back !

yes all shields r compatible, the only thing that is changed is the
way the serial to usb conversion is handled !

Ram

On Oct 1, 6:28 pm, Meenakshi Sundaram <boukenseic...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Anirudh
> It has the same pin configuration and micro-controller, so I guess it should
> work :).
>

> On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Anirudh <anirudhsharma.cry...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>
>
> > One more question. Shields of the duemilanove board will be compatible with
> > UNO?
>
> > Waiting for Ram to clear our doubts
>

> > On 01-Oct-2010, at 7:58 AM, Meenakshi Sundaram <boukenseic...@gmail.com>

> > wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> > Is it the absence of a separate USB-SERIAL driver?
> > M. Meenakshi Sundaram
>

> > On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 7:30 AM, Meenakshi Sundaram <<boukenseic...@gmail.com>
> > boukenseic...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> Hi guys,
> >> I came across the latest release - arduino uno. I have a few queries on
> >> that. They quote the following on their webpage:
> >> "The Uno differs from all preceding boards in that it does not use the

> >> FTDI USB-to-serial driver chip. Instead, it features the Atmega8U2programmed as a USB-to-serial converter. "